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May 07, 2015

As
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's egregious $300 million budget cut
to the University of Wisconsin (UW) system is debated in the state
legislature, members of Progressive Students of Milwaukee, Youth
Empowered in the Struggle and the UW Milwaukee Resists Cuts Coalition
are staging a sit-in at UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Mark Mone's office
after numerous attempts to try to meet with him.

The
students are demanding that the chancellor meet with them and concede
to their demands that he publicly and unequivocally oppose the
proposed budget as harmful, unnecessary and political in nature, as
well as cut administrative positions and salaries before cutting
academics and student services and before laying off faculty and
staff. The students refuse to leave until their voices are heard!

Call
Chancellor Mone's office and demand that he meet with UWM students
and oppose the cuts!

414-229-4331

April 29, 2015

Students for a Democratic Society stands in solidarity with the people’s uprising in Baltimore as they demand justice for Freddie Gray. SDS stands against police repression and militarization, particularly in its manifestations as brutality, racial profiling, and enforcement of white supremacy. The uprising in Baltimore highlights the extreme emergency situation of oppressed nationalities in the United States and demonstrates the extreme measures to which people living in Baltimore will bravely go to take back their streets, in a sustained series of protests that have yet to cease.

April 28, 2015

Students for a Democratic Society and its affiliates
stand in solidarity with political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, who is
the victim of attempted execution through medical neglect and
malpractice. An acclaimed activist, author, and revolutionary
journalist; Mumia went into diabetic shock on March 30, with no past
history of diabetes. Hospitalized for two days, Mumia was then
transferred back to the prison that failed to diagnose his illness.
With a dangerously inadequate diet and health that deteriorates each
day, Mumia’s well-being is being deliberately sabotaged. As the
state’s two past execution attempts were foiled by international
pressure, SDS recognizes this medical mistreatment as another attempt
on Mumia’s life.

April 10, 2015

On Thursday, April 9th, over 100 students gathered at the steps of the Westcott administration building on Florida State Universities campus to protest the recent Klan activity in Tallahassee communities and Florida law enforcement. Just last week the KKK made national headlines when three Florida Department of Corrections officers, who were secretly members of Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, were caught planning to lynch a black prisoner once he had been released. This news came at the same time as the KKK was carrying out a major recruiting campaign throughout Florida, passing out hundreds of flyers near Tallahassee throughout Leon and Jefferson Counties.

April 09, 2015

Just an hour after UMN President Eric Kaler delivered his annual State of the University address, Minneapolis activists, led by Students for a Democratic Society members, delivered their own address. Dubbed a "People's State of the University Address", the address centered on the struggle of students, staff, and faculty, including inflated administrations, the need for a diversified campus, tuition hikes, and greater difficulties for workers. This was in contrast the the address delivered by Eric Kaler which was little more than a PR stunt for the university.

Students for a Democratic Society and its affiliates stand in solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution and the Venezuelan government, and we oppose all forms of intervention by the United States. We are joining forces with other antiwar organizations in the United States, in response to President Maduro’s call for international solidarity. On April 19th, we’ll be participating in the Global Day of Action in Solidarity with Venezuela.US INTERVENTION ATTEMPTS IN VENEZUELA

On March 9th, President Obama released an Executive Order, calling Venezuela an “unusual and extraordinary threat to national security.” This is the latest phase of US warmongering against the Venezuelan government:

1. Multiple coup attempts against Chavez and Maduro, including coup attempts in 2002 and 2014. Most recently, another coup attempt surfaced earlier this year in exchange for visas to the US and the UK.

2. A year-round effort by the US to prop up anti-government protests. According to Telesur, “USAID set up an Office for Transition Initiatives (OTI) in Caracas … to oversee Venezuela operations and distribute millions of dollars to anti-government groups.”

4.Sanctions against democratically elected pro-government forces.WHY VENEZUELA? WHY THE BOLIVARIANS?

Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua openly condemn Western capital and neoliberal policies. The Chavez and Maduro administrations in particular have worked to eradicate the poverty and illiteracy caused by US imperialism:

1. Universal, tuition-free education.

2. Efforts to end illiteracy. “It is estimated that over 70% of the new students entering Venezuela's university system come from families living below the poverty line.”

3. Efforts to end poverty. “In 1998, 21 percent of homes were registered as experiencing extreme poverty and earlier that decade as economic crisis.” By 2014, the number had dropped massively to 5.5%. US INTERVENTION IS DOMINATION, POVERTY, WAR

The U.S. government has backed interventions and coup attempts in both Latin America and around the world for over a century. Some Latin American examples include:

● (1954) Jocobo Arbenz of Guatemala

● (1964) Joao Goulart of Brazil

● (1973) Salvador Allende of Chile

● (2009) Jose Manuel Zelaya of Honduras

The goal of these interventions is not the spread of democracy, as the US government claims. It is to open the country to US capital, to the privatization of necessities like water, education, and oil. U.S. corporations also exploit these people for cheap labor, land, natural resources.

SDS stands for the sovereignty and self-determination of Latin America. We proudly support the Bolivarian Revolution’s efforts to free Latin America from U.S. hegemony -- economic, cultural, and political.

March 29, 2015

March 20th marks the 12th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by the
United States. This invasion was kicked off with the “Shock and Awe”
bombings of Baghdad in which over 6,000 civilians were killed. This
act of aggression was the beginning of a long occupation of the
country by US troops that would eventually result in over half a
million Iraqis being killed. Beyond the deaths there was incalculable
damage to Iraqi infrastructure, as well as a mental scar that will
mark the psyche of Iraqis and the surrounding region for generations
to come.